To Park or Not to Park

[Domain News]

Domain parking is an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on. Usually the domain owner is paid based on how many links have been visited (e.g. pay per click) and on how beneficial those visits have been. The keywords for any given domain name provide clues as to the intent of the visitor before arriving.
Another use of domain parking is to be a placeholder of an existing web site. A company might choose to use this method to redirect its website traffic to another web site it owns.

On domains with a 'one-click' implementation, a click on a keyword is not necessary to generate ads. The ads are targeted based on the domain name.
Domains with 'two-click' implementations require a click on a keyword or a keyword search to generate ads.

Domain parking can be classified as monetised and non-monetised. In the former, ads are shown to visitors and the domain is 'monetised'. In the latter, an "Under Construction" or a "Coming Soon" message is put up on the domain. This a single page web site that people see when they type the domain name in a web browser. This is one quick way for getting an Internet presence. Domain names can be parked before a web site is ready for launching.

Sites I have heard are good for parking:
www.sedo.com (http://www.sedo.com/)
www.fabulous.com (http://www.fabulous.com/)
www.google.com/domainpark/ (http://www.google.com/domainpark/)

Popular sites I'm not sure about for parking:
www.domainsponsor.com (http://www.domainsponsor.com)
www.skenzo.com (http://www.skenzo.com)
www.parkednames.com (http://www.parkednames.com)

[bested]

I'd say... not to park

Most of the site's I go to that are parked... seem to me like sites that are just out to make money, and usually don't have any good content on them. On the other hand, this seems like something I might do for my site :P

[LeetDesigns]

Parked sites are only good if you have alot of traffic. Alot of people dont click on the parking page. I think have a site with content and some adsense on it would do better.

[Stealer]

The only reason I have a site parked would be because I am working on something else and don't have time to make a website out of it at the time. Of course making the site a simple forum along with some content. Along with some max google ads +adsense will most probably make you more money then a parked site would but there are only so many hours in a day and you must make sure you are not half-assing projects:eek: Just to be able to get to further ones.

This is what I do I liked reading your guys insight and I hope you liked my opinion as well thanks.:p

[colm17]

I say u park. because it is hard to make a website sometimes and u dont have the time.

[bested]

The only reason I have a site parked would be because I am working on something else and don't have time to make a website out of it at the time. Of course making the site a simple forum along with some content. Along with some max google ads +adsense will most probably make you more money then a parked site would but there are only so many hours in a day and you must make sure you are not half-assing projects:eek: Just to be able to get to further ones.

This is what I do I liked reading your guys insight and I hope you liked my opinion as well thanks.:p

Well, yes... your insight is very nice to have as well :D
I can't just listen to myself you know. haha

[smilemaker]

isay parked beacuse if the webmaster have to go school work or some other reason the can park it and earn traffic it popular.

[Stealer]

This could be a good idea..If you had a main site you wanted to direct traffic to that is a very nice point you made. But I was just saying the only reason I park sites because I haven't decided what I am going to do with them yet.

Two recent buys of my projects that are currently parked include:

www.htmlformyspace.com
www.fukmyspace.com

Both great domains one I am buying a myspace script for (not a myspace type site but a myspace add on type site)

[Coby DuBose]

I'd say don't park it. I agree with bested in that most of these parked sites are out looking for money. It just doesn't look good, in my opinion.

What sort of websites do you deal with, Stealer?

[Neoakenz]

Have you guys heard of the .cm where all the all the domains under it was parked and people were complaining because when they mistype google.com as google.cm it leads them to a page full of ads, I will try looking for the site where the news was posted but I bet you that you could google it and find it!! :)

[EGS]

SEDO hasn't been doing too well for me lately. :(
Looks like I will be trying NameDrive from now on. I've only heard positive things about them. :D

[Fishnagles]

Have you ever tryed making yur own like this:
www.longislandservices.com

I like this type of idea just using Google Adsence.

[EGS]

Have you ever tryed making yur own like this:
www.longislandservices.com

I like this type of idea just using Google Adsence.
What script are you using to make that? :confused:
Looks like it can dynamically create content and relevant ads on the fly?

Also, isn't that banned from AdSense? Looks like a MFA site...which can result in the termination of your AdSense account. :o

[Fishnagles]

I actually created the template myself from a godaddy parked page..... I think your right though.... :(

[Migga]

I think that parking a domain is always a bad idea. I personally get annoyed by the many people that do this. I go to a site looking for something and all I find is a useless page.

[KS2007]

I have several sites that I have parked for about 1-2 years now. I have probably made lets say 25 euros or so in this time. I may set all the parked sites up and bring in some content but I think the niche is so small and rare that I would only be getting a hundred or so visitors in a day if i'm lucky. So thats the main reason I have just parked them.

[henric17]

i consider that the best solution to make more money with your domain names are to parking on sedo.com!
I parked my domain on sedo with 5 days ago and now i have 87$!
Anyway I have a very good traffic!(more than 800 visits per day)

[freefall2]

I'm new at parking domains, I've had mine parked at Sedo, domain name http://my3rdeye.net actually a friend of mine registered this domain on my account and is not being used, so instead of it being idle I've tried searching on good parking sites that pays good too. Sedo gave me this little link http://www.sedo.co.uk/?partnerid=36451 for those who would like to buy domains.
Also I've noticed that Sedo offers at this time 7 template for parking pages.
Still checking on other options to earn on the net

[fly2008inchina]

Be strength disregarding why says advertisement is also one kind of way , resembles

these network products and technology and serves, advertisement is topublicize,:p

otherwise everybody right away at all does not know your product.

[forumuser2008]

Hi,
I am very new to the world of domain names and this is my first post. Since Feb till date I have made a profile of 102 domains (mixture of .co.uk, .net, .com,.eu, .mobi)
I think domain parking is a very good idea if you have too many domains in your hand and difficult to develop a site. I tried parking on NameDrive but didn't give me any revenue for 2 weeks so I switched to Sedo where I started earning something. I will leave it for a month or so and see total earnings.

Much appreciate if you guru's could share your experience in the domain industry.

Cheers

[isol]

i say , Parking is a very good way for earning money if someone offering a free parking service and www.compilecontent.com sounds very good and its launching tommorrow. Its offering a great features like social networking websites,live supports, 100% revenue to users which they will earn from ad source, Seo friendly websites will be created and unique, relevent and regularly updated content will be provided. User can park their 1000+ domain names at free of cost.

So i this try to park at www.compilecontent.com . there nothing to lost because its free service.

why just park... (http://www.compilecontent.com)

[VanguardDomain]

This is always a good Question?

In My Opinion:
Parking a site - in many cases will result in Google blacklisting the domain - especially if it has duplicate content on it. If you are planning to sell the domain - I believe it is best to not park it first - as once the buyer receives and developes the name - they then find that they have trouble getting listed on the major search engines. This can cause problems for future sales.

[domainzaar]

Parking is often a very wise solution, especially if you have multiple domains. Developing 20 domains, for example, would take a lot of money and time.

[Fishnagles]

Development is always better.... Even a simple one pager...

[domainzaar]

Development is always better.... Even a simple one pager...

It would be very time consuming to create 50 simple one pagers and all different ads on them, let alone fully develop that many domains.

[Fishnagles]

Remember that hard work generally pays off... ;)

[parkingaccounts]

Domain parking is an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on. Usually the domain owner is paid based on how many links have been visited (e.g. pay per click) and on how beneficial those visits have been. The keywords for any given domain name provide clues as to the intent of the visitor before arriving.
Another use of domain parking is to be a placeholder of an existing web site. A company might choose to use this method to redirect its website traffic to another web site it owns.

On domains with a 'one-click' implementation, a click on a keyword is not necessary to generate ads. The ads are targeted based on the domain name.
Domains with 'two-click' implementations require a click on a keyword or a keyword search to generate ads.

Domain parking can be classified as monetised and non-monetised. In the former, ads are shown to visitors and the domain is 'monetised'. In the latter, an "Under Construction" or a "Coming Soon" message is put up on the domain. This a single page web site that people see when they type the domain name in a web browser. This is one quick way for getting an Internet presence. Domain names can be parked before a web site is ready for launching.

Sites I have heard are good for parking:
www.sedo.com (http://www.sedo.com/)
www.fabulous.com (http://www.fabulous.com/)
www.google.com/domainpark/ (http://www.google.com/domainpark/)

Popular sites I'm not sure about for parking:
www.domainsponsor.com (http://www.domainsponsor.com)
www.skenzo.com (http://www.skenzo.com)
www.parkednames.com (http://www.parkednames.com)


hi all

domain parking is a good if you have good domains and quality traffic, i mean type-in and organic traffic.

you should optimize your domains before earning or should know much about domain parking and all domain parking accounts..

regards
parkingaccounts.com